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Lately where ever I went, most of the people whom I’ve met will ask me this question “How is it going in the factory?” My spontaneous response is the business is slow. Well that is the truth if relatively compared to last year’s business results. But to be honest, things are not so bad after all.

I’m sure many of you will be wondering why I’m I saying things are not so bad. Logically, when business is slow, companies especially with factories will resort to expense control which will eventually leads to headcount reduction, i.e. layoff. This is true looking at the current situation many are or will be facing sooner or later.

It is a fact that individually we can’t change the economic situation. Whatever is happening now is something that is already been expected to happen and we can’t avoid it. We can either choose to ride the economic Tsunami or drown into it. For me I would prefer to ride the waves as long there is still a wave for me to ride on ?. It is totally useless to prolong the sadness and frustration and not doing anything about it. I personally believed with this saying “There is always a blessing in disguise”.

“There is always a blessing in disguise”

Going back to my work that I fortunately still have, with the slow down in business, my work load should also slow down. But unexpectedly, I still have loads of things to do on my plate,(lucky me) just because there are opportunities popping out for improvement & development. Now I have more time to spend looking into ways to improve the processes being used in my daily work and also into my team’s work. Things that were previously impossible to look into due to time constraint now I can make them possible. Obviously with the slow down in business, indices measuring our productivity and quality standards are magnified and that will force my team and me to improve them.

Well for those who became casualties of the economic Tsunami will be asking where is the blessing? Is the blessing still in disguise until they can’t even see it yet? Those are valid questions and I empathy with them. But the answers to these questions can only be discovered if they are ready to make THE CHANGE. It is a normal human behaviour to resist change just because we are way too deep into our comfort zone. Coming out of the comfort zone is already difficult and on top of that it makes matter worst by loosing their job.

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often,” Winston Churchill believed. And Charles Darwin wrote, “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

The bottom line, whatever is happening to you now regardless if it is a good thing or not, you will need to bear in mind that to survive and continue to strive future success; you will need to be flexible enough to ride the Tsunami.

If you would like to share your experience riding the ecomonic Tsunami, please feel free to leave your comments below.